Securing device for detachable buttons



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SECURING DEVICE FOR DETACHABLE BUTTONS. APPLICATION FILED APR.25.1919. RENEWED MAR. 23.1921.

1,376,817. Y Patented May 3, 1921.

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I HENRY KOCOUREK, orcnroneo, ILLINOIS.

SECURING DEVICE FOR DETACHABLE BUTTONS. 7

Specification of Letters Patent.

I atelated May 3,1921.-

Application filed April 25, 1919, Serial No. 292,606. Renewed March 23, 1921. Serial No. 454,900.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, HENRY Kooournir, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois,havetinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Securing Devices for Detachable Buttons, of which the following is .a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a wart thereof.

' he purpose of this invention is to provide a means for securing to a fabric or garment, a button of the type having projecting from the back an attaching loop or eye. It consists in the elements and features of construction shown and described, as indicated in the claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front view of two parts of a garment secured together by a button embodying this invention.

Fig. 2 is a rear or inside view of the same.

Fig. 3 is an edge view of the button and the securing device, the latter being partly in axial section;

Fig. 4 is an edge view of the button at a position ninety degrees turned from that in Fig. 3, with the attaching device portion of the button in axial section.

Fig. 5 is a section at the line, 55, on Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 consists of details of the several parts of the attaching device.

Fig. 7 is a plan view of the outer fabricclenching washer.

Fig. 8 is'a similar view ofhthe inner washer.

Fig. 9 is a section at the line, 9-9, on

neat in appearance,-and adapted to bereadily engaged with the button-hole. In the drawings, 1 represents such a button of which 2 is the back disk or plate and ,3 the.

attaching eye. The securing device comprises a fiat tubular member, 5, which may be made by folding up a sheet metal blank of described.

which the ends make a butt-joint as shown at 5, (but it is not necessarily formedin this way) the middle portion of the width of the tube being cut awayat one end so as to leave standing, projecting from the two narrower sides which are not'cut away, tangs, 4, 4, which are preferably sharpened at the ends as indicated at 4, to adapt them to penetrate the fabric to which the button is to be at tached. Inthe sharpened ends of each of these tangs there is formed a small eyelet, 14, for engaging a securing device hereinafter At the other end the tube is adapted to receive the eye, 3, of the button thrust thereinto, as seen mostclearly in Fig. 4, the end of the tube abutting snugly against the back of the button when the eye is thrust into the. tube, and. the tube being button as shown. at 6 inFig. 3, but not e}:-

cluding other means of effecting the securement. -F0r securing the device to the fabric,

the tangs,'4, 4,are thrust through the fabric, requlring no other means than their sharpened ends for penetrating it, though the,

fabric may be pierced with a knife. for that purposeif preferred. A washer, 7, however, is first passed onto the tangs, 4, ofthe tube, said tangs being thrust'through apertures, 8, 8, in the washer, and the washer having preferablyan additional aperture, 9, to accommodate the end of the eye, 3, so that when the washer is snugly up against the bottom of the shoulder formed at 10 by the recess or notch, out in the device to form the tangs, 4, the back of the button shall be spaced away fromthe Washer and from the fabric, in whichthe washerwill be embedded, no greater distance than the length of the uncut away portion of the tube which is of course made only sufficient to conveniently accommodate the fabric of the garment which is to be engaged by the button. The device having been thrust into the fabric as described with the washer, 7, in place on the forward or outer side of-the fabric, facing the back of the button, a second washer, 11, having apertures, 12, for receiving the ends of the tangs, 4, is applied upon said tangs and pressed closely against the back side of the fabric, and the catch or snap device, .13, which. is formed of wire bent in the form of a letter S, with the ends turned outward so asto project directly oppositely away. from each other, is then snapped into engagement of its ends with the eyelets, 14, in the ends of the tangs which 13, would be' objectionable, and must be.

covered to protect interior garments from wear or' from injury by reason of these sharp or projecting ends. For that purpose there is provided aicap, 15, which is a disl';

. having a marginal lip, l6,-which is re-curved inwardly as shown at 16, so as to form an inwardly-facing channel. This cap is now snapped over the projecting 'ends' or" the tangs, 4, and its re-curved edge, 16, is

snapped into engagement with the ends of the snap spring or catch device, 13, which serve to retain the'cap in place while the cap guards and covers said ends.

While this button is entirely secure in its engagement with the fabric, it is readily detachable by springin off the cap, 15, whereupon the snap spring catch, 13, may be dis engaged, leaving thet-angs tree to be withdrawn from the fabric.

I claim V 1. A button securing device consisting of a flat tube having at one end tangs project-' ing endwise for penetrating the fabric to which the button is to be attached, and d1- mensioned at the other end to receive the attaching loop or eye of a button, and to have one or more of its sides engaged therewith, and means for engaging the tangs on the opposite side of the fabric from the button.

2. In the structure defined in claim 1, the tube being engaged with the button loop or eye by sinking one side of the tube into said eye.

' 3. In the structure defined in claim 1, the

means for engaging the tangs on the opposite side of the fabric, being a spring-wire clip, the tangs having each an aperture for engaging the ends of the clip, and the clip being flexed between'its ends to reactfor thrusting said ends oppositely into said apertures of the tang.

a. In the structure defined in claim 1, the means for engaging the tangs on the opposite side of the fabric from the button, consistin of a spring-Wire clip, the tangs having apertures or eyelets for receiving the 'ends of the clip, and the clip being flexed be twe n its ends for thrusting said ends oppositely into said eyelets of the tan s, and a cap having a marginal lip reflexed, inward for encompasing the tangs and the ends of th clip in the inwardly facing groove formed by said refiexed lip. I

5. In the constructiondefined in claim 1, a forward side fabric-clamping washer, apertured for the tangs and adapted to be stopped against the end of the tube between the tangs, and a rear side fabric-clamping washer apertured for the tangs.

6. In the construction defined in claim 1, a forward side tabrie clamping washer apert" red for the tangs and adapted to be stopped against the end of the tube between the tangs, and having a central aperture for the button eye or loop and a rear side fabricclamping washer apertured for the tangs.

in testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Chicago, Illinois, this 19 day of Apr 1919.

- 7 HENRY oconnnn. 

